"Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?"

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Source : Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.22, Macmillan

Thomas Harris

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“One night I dreamed I was locked in my Father's watch With Ptolemy and twenty-one ruby stars Mounted on spheres and the Primum Mobile Coiled and gleaming to the end of space And the notched spheres eating each other's rinds To the last tooth of time, and the case closed.”
“When you read Marx (or Jesus) this way, you come to see that real wealth is not material wealth and real poverty is not just the lack of food, shelter, and clothing. Real poverty is the belief that the purpose of life is acquiring wealth and owning things. Real wealth is not the possession of property but the recognition that our deepest need, as human beings, is to keep developing our natural and acquired powers to relate to other human beings.”

Source : Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige (2011). “The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century”, p.60, Univ of California Press
“The first design I created was a circular skirt for my Barbie when I was 7.”
“They have no allegiance to Atlantic City whatsoever, other than nostalgia, and that doesn't pay the bills, ... The Miss America pageant has to do what it thinks best serves its interests, and if moving out of Atlantic City does, that's what it should do.”
“The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us”
“Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.”
“I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman.”
“Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile.”

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